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ICRA
2009
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
From pixels to objects: Enabling a spatial model for humanoid social robots
— This work adds the concept of object to an existent low-level attention system of the humanoid robot iCub. The objects are defined as clusters of SIFT visual features. When th...
Dario Figueira, Manuel Lopes, Rodrigo M. M. Ventur...
EPIA
2009
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Towards a Spatial Model for Humanoid Social Robots
This paper presents an approach to endow a humanoid robot with the capability of learning new objects and recognizing them in an unstructured environment. New objects are learnt, w...
Dario Figueira, Manuel Lopes, Rodrigo M. M. Ventur...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Task-level imitation learning using variance-based movement optimization
— Recent advances in the field of humanoid robotics increase the complexity of the tasks that such robots can perform. This makes it increasingly difficult and inconvenient to ...
Manuel Mühlig, Michael Gienger, Sven Hellbach...
TROB
2008
207views more  TROB 2008»
13 years 4 months ago
Learning Object Affordances: From Sensory-Motor Coordination to Imitation
Affordances encode relationships between actions, objects and effects. They play an important role on basic cognitive capabilities such as prediction and planning. We address the p...
Luis Montesano, Manuel Lopes, Alexandre Bernardino...
ACII
2011
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
Expressive Gesture Model for Humanoid Robot
Abstract. This paper presents an expressive gesture model that generates communicative gestures accompanying speech for the humanoid robot Nao. The research work focuses mainly on ...
Le Quoc Anh, Catherine Pelachaud